Pontormo’s Young Man Holding a Red Cap at Hill Art Foundation

In 2018, the Hill Art Foundation commissioned Factum to make an exact facsimile of Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap. The painting, which was at the centre of a failed fundraising initiative by the National Gallery in 2016, is a portrait of the young, Florentine noble Carlo Neroni. It is one of the paintings mentioned by Giorgio Vasari’s Life of Artists in the chapter dedicated to Pontormo.
The facsimile was made as part of an initiative by Hill Art Foundation to make masterpieces of its collection accessible to a wider audience. The facsimile is on the front and back of the wooden panel.